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An article on different ways of foretelling the future.

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Taghairm, sometimes interpreted as "spiritual echo," or calling up the dead, was an ancient Scottish mode of divination. The definition of what was required varied, but may have included an ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Cultural anthropology

Scrying (also called seeing or peeping) is the practice of looking into a translucent ball or other material with the belief that things can be seen, such as spiritual visions, and less often for ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Cultural anthropology

Pyromancy (from Greek pyros, "fire," and manteia, "divination") is the art of divination by means of fire. Due to the importance of fire in society from the earliest of times, it is quite likely that ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Cultural anthropology

Palmistry, or chiromancy (also spelled cheiromancy), is the claim of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palm reading or chirology. The practice ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Cultural anthropology

Necromancy is a form of magic involving communication with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Mythology

Hydromancy is a method of divination by means of water, including the color, ebb and flow, or ripples produced by pebbles dropped in a pool. In Renaissance magic, hydromancy was classified as one of ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Cultural anthropology

Geomancy is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand. The most prevalent form of divinatory geomancy involves ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Cultural anthropology

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